Type in fishing forum sterling IL and you won't see my website but you will see catch'n.com....? He is near the top. I don't understand, does anyone have any ideas on this? I have meta tags and I have fishing forum, sterling IL. so why does google ignore me?

Well type in fishead Dave and you're first in line. You just can't be first in line under all the words you can come up with. I for one have no idea how Google works or what determines what comes up first.

Heres what I figured out today, people use site map creators, these will crawl forum pages and thats what is happening with my city being on one forum but not mine, I don't think google is spidering my forum. I did have some errors in my sitemap which I neglected and I hear google doesn't like this and will not be kind about it if it is prolonged. I removed my sitemaps for my other sites because I couldn't fix the errors. My main site has been ok but a couple bad links. I hear google doesn't like repeat content and I hope I am not doing this, I do have my cartoons on two sites.

After reading a little more I hear people talk about auto sitemap creators, that it is important to use them and I think this is where I am missing the boat, my forum isn't being picked up because its only listed in my index, no other pages, so I am looking into getting a creator. Most want money.

I don't understand, google keeps saying redirects but I haven't a clue. These same urls worked last week, now that I try to add a new map they call them redirects. Thats why I removed all my other sitemaps, keep saying redirect errors. WTF?

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URLs not followed
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target). All valid URLs will still be submitted.

ya thats what it was, those commas didn't belong so now I added all my sitemaps back on all my sites.

I downloaded this sitemap maker and it works great, but I didn't actually use the sitemap because I already made my own but I was able to check it out to see if it was like mine and it is.

I still wonder about the forum, can't find where there are actual page urls to submit but I do think people are doing this. Without these pages listed on a sitemap google will just skip them. I have a lot to learn yet.

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